GRANTA MI 2.0 Delivers Materials Information Management

By DE Editors

Granta Design (Cambridge, UK) announced its next generation of GRANTA MI, a system for materials information management in industries including aerospace, defense, energy, automotive, consumer and industrial equipment, materials production, and medical devices.

GRANTA MI version 2.0 builds on a mature environment, enhancing it with guidance from Granta customers including the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC), a collaboration of world-leading engineering enterprises. New capabilities help such companies to manage their ever-changing materials data more effectively, to apply that data accurately, and to deploy vital design information to engineers enterprise-wide. Granta has also delivered wide-ranging new reference data to support materials-related decision-making.

GRANTA MI 2.0 introduces two major data management features, version control and data quality ratings, strengthening its position as the industry standard for constructing, managing, and using corporate materials databases. It is said to be the first materials system to implement formal version control, which enables a systematic approach to updating data, captures information explaining changes, and stores all previous versions of any item of data.

GRANTA MI 2.0 enhances the usability and appeal of the browser user interface with which these users navigate, search, and view information. Export of data for use in engineering design software is enhanced with new support for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire from Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). Fully interactive access from computer-aided engineering (CAE) is enabled by a new plug-in for the Abaqus/CAE finite element analysis (FEA) software from the SIMULIA brand of Dassault Systemes.

GRANTA MI provides tools that help designers and engineers optimize costs, rationalize the number of materials types used, or design for low carbon footprint and energy efficiency. Enhancements to the data libraries available with GRANTA MI 2.0 help to ensure that such decisions are based on accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date materials property reference data. Across all materials classes, updated information on materials prices and eco properties aids analysis of commercial performance and environmental impact.

For details, visit Granta Design.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.